Further expansion of flight operations and aircraft fleet of airlines may now be stopped if the DGCA finds that the financial condition of the airline is affecting air-safety standards.

Girls once again outscored boys in the Class 12 CBSE exams which witnessed a dip of about one per cent in overall pass percentage as compared to 2009.
Nearly 5.5 lakh students, out of the over seven lakh who appeared in the Class 12 examination held in March 2010, cleared the hurdle. The success rate of students this year is 79.87 per cent against 81 per cent last year.

State-owned BSNL on Friday invited bids for acquiring 5.5 million lines to expand GSM operations from three foreign vendors, barring Chinese, who had participated in the earlier 93 million line tender which was cancelled.

The government is set to reap another bonanza from the auction of wireless broadband (BWA) spectrum that would begin from Monday. Even if the government gets half the money from the BWA auction that it got from 3G, it will would bring the total money generated by the auctions of spectrum to around Rs 93,000 crore.

The Indian men’s hockey team were handed out a tough draw in this year’s Commonwealth Games, clubbed with world champions Australia and archrivals Pakistan in the October 3 to 14 megaevent.

In a bid to standardise the use of technology across all formats of the game, the ICC’s cricket committee has recommended that UDRS be used in all Test matches as well as in the World Cup in the subcontinent next year.

Kanwar Pal Singh Gill is back. The deposed president of the Indian Hockey Federation got a shot in the arm, with the Delhi High Court on Friday restoring the national body, two years after it was dissolved by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) over bribery allegations and poor on-field results.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi made a turnaround in his position on how to tackle the Maoist insurgency on Thursday after senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders expressed unhappiness over the “soft” line he had taken in the morning.

The National Cadet Corps, headed by a lieutenant-general, has criticised Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi for his “belated” decision to not seek the help of 2,500 NCC cadets from outside Delhi for the October event. The NCC said this would “demoralise” the organisation and its cadets from

The Delhi government wants to delay a decision on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition till after the Commonwealth Games in October, not wishing to take any chances with security for